Mexico - Puerto Morelos

On the Balcony at the room in puerto morelos

eating diner on the beach

Picture of the moon. I wasn't fast enough to get it while half was covered by the ocean. this picture doesn't to justice for the size.

Driving on the road system. Actually they have pretty nice roads. As you can see its pretty green there. The jungle grows up to the road, but the do an awesome job at keeping the plants cut and the road clear. The weird thing is that the speed fluctuates a lot for no apparent reason. um...speed traps

I decided to do this by location instead of day. We went to Mexico to celebrate 5 years of being in a relationship. Its weird to think of how quick time can be and when I look back at the last five years its amazing how much has happen. This was all possible because last year during thanksgiving we had the chance to be bumped from our flight and in return received a free flight. So when you have a chance- do it! We arrived in Mexico around 5 pm and because they advise not to drive at night we decided to stay in a small fishing town just 15 miles south in Puerto Morelos. We got to the town pretty quick but once we got there we couldn't find the Hotel. yea-In this huge town of 8 blocks. (of course i didn't get bring any directions to any of the places we where staying) We called and no one spoke English at the hotel. We knew it was on the beach so we just drove down all these little alleys until finally we found it. It was on the beach and the room was pretty big and quite cheep. Another reason we went there was because they have one of the best spot for snorkeling along the reef. We didn't get to go there cause the ocean was to ruff. The people were nice and the food was pretty good. The best part was the moon. We were eating dinner outside at a restaurant and it was pretty dark. Then raised a large moon out in the ocean. It was orange and you could see it moving. The moon moves very quickly there. Its so beautiful and you could see the landscape of the moon without a telescope. We didn't do much else there. We were tired of the long travel and just relaxed and looked and listened to ocean in the moonlight. One funny thing is that Lucas ate half a bar similar to a granola bar and left the rest in the wrapper on the counter. In the morning there was this long long long line of sugar ants that where taking little parts of it. We had breakfast and headed south to Tulum. My favorite story of the trip happen on the way there. We are driving south and this is the longest part of the driving about 40 miles. (btw everyone there has new cars. I was surprised. I think we had the oldest car on the road) So we are going about 100k/h which is around 60 m per hour. And we see a truck that looks like a dump truck full of just junk. As we are passing it we notice two animals on top of the junk. It was two little monkeys fighting each other on top of this big truck going about 50 miles an hour down the road. It was so funny and i wish the camera wouldn't have been in the trunk of the car. We made sure to keep the camera handy for the rest of the trip.

Pictures of Mexico

This is taking much longer than I thought to get info on my trip up. I thought I would post some of my favorite pictures taken on the trip.

This is on the ferry ride to an island off of Cancun that we spent the last day on.

This is me at the shark tank at the local mall

This was the Tulum Beach.

pretty fish

This was the beach next to Tulum right before the second of three storms that we got caught in.

This Picture is also before the storm right outside of the Cabana. Its awesome picture for your desktop background.

This was our search for the Tulum ruins. It was actually pouring rain and the wind was really strong up there

This is the Largest ruin in Tulum.

This last picture is of the ruins in Tulum and my favorite. It's not full of color but its sums up the essence of Mexico (and the space is great in the picture).

Home at last!

After being in Mexico for the last week I am home. I actually got home on Tuesday after spending one quick night in LA (less than 12 hrs). Mexico was awesome and I hope to do a day- by-day now that I'm getting readjusted to normal life. I can stop saying hola and gracias or counting in Spanish. It's probably annoying to people at work. Over all being outside of the United States always reminds me how much I love my country. Regardless of the differences and the negative spin you sometimes get- being an American is and has a responsibility and a security. That said being in Mexico reminds me of the simple things. The basics is what we treasure, understand, and seek the most. I seem to get lost in "material objects" or accomplishment- sometimes just the routine of life. Stepping back in one of the most gorgeous places on Earth helps reline focus. Not that anything was profound but you start to notice the simple basics.

Mexico Bound

It has been a while but I've been busy getting ready to spend my first total relaxing vacation. Work's taken care of and the trip is planned. Since I have been a little boy it was my dream to see middle Americas pyramids. I going to do that tomorrow. Wish me luck! Hope you all have a GREAT day!